TWAS: Term 1 is a wrap!

Thank you for coming out and celebrating your child's learning over the last 2 days! As busy as this time of the year is for us teachers and students, it's also the most rewarding! It's just awesome to see the students so eager to share with their families.

Thanks to Coen for sharing his TWAS on the blog this week . . .

On Monday we had computer lab and finished our comic life. In the end it turned out looking pretty awesome! We also started writing out Term One Tribune! It think it’s like a newspaper for our classroom? Hmmmm. Well anyways it was really fun! One more thing we did was the final step in our birch tree art! I just love how it turned out!

On Tuesday we had an assembly. I also finished my Who Am I writing. The Who Am I writing looks like a fingerprint. See if you can guess mine! Another thing we had was music. We did recorder stuff.

On Wednesday we got a FREE breakfast because we won some sort of draw. I would give it two stars because the pancakes were super dry, the eggs were cold as ice, and they didn’t even have SYRUP. The only good things were the chocolate milk and sausages. One more thing was that Mrs. Nowicki was a substitute in the morning because Ms. Wasney was in a meeting.

 

On Thursday I am typing this very sentence in the computer lab. And on the bright side I am almost done. Anyways, we also had gym, which we didn’t do anything yet because I think gym is after lunch. I don’t know I’ll check sooner or later. We also did portfolio practice. And we still didn’t do it because it’s after afternoon recess.

On Friday there is no school.

By: Coen

#NOSCHOOL

Birch Trees in Winter . . . the prettiest art!

Making this birch tree art was really fun. Our first snowfall inspired us to make it. What we did was we got water colour paper and we cut pieces of masking tape and we cut it into shapes of trees and we also made branches. Then we pushed down the tape with all our might so the paint wouldn’t leak underneath it. After that we got water colour paint and we could either blend a few colours together or just have one colour on it I did two colours blue and purple. Then (this was optional) you could sprinkle bits of salt on it to give it that snowy look.

Then we removed the tape and did oil pastel. The first step for oil pastel was the bark, what we did is we got black pastel and put lines to resemble the black lines on birch trees. Step two was to do the shadow so we got gray pastel and on the opposite side of the black pastel we did gray to resemble the shadow on the trees from the sun or moon. 


Ms. Wasney has really good ideas for art and this was one of my favourites.

By: Carter Grace

A "snowy" TWAS!

Wow! We've had a whirlwind of a week! Some of the involved students were out 3 times this week! Monday had the Grade 5 SPIN Club members at WE Day, on Tuesday, several Grade 4s and 5s were at Dr. Hamilton for a volleyball tournament, and today, the Grade 4 and 5 Patrols spent the morning at Wheelies! Throw in the excitement of the first snowfall, and our week was a wrap! Ha!

Here's Katrina's TWAS for the week . . .

Art Reflection on Tuesday

On Monday, we got computer lab to finish up Comic Life, I love Comic Life. Well, half of the class went to WE Day, the other half stayed back and we got to watch The Lorax! Yay!

Unicef Reflection on Wednesday

Tuesday, Read to Self. We never get read to self, so this time we did! Yay! I love read to self! Half of the class went to a volleyball tournament. That made the day a bit confusing.

Wednesday, in Gym we had a “strength-a-thon”. I was surprised to find out I started at bench jumps! We also had early dismissal! Yay!

Snow inspired art on Friday!

On Thursday we had a substitute teacher, it was Mr. Waldie. I like him because he makes lots of fun names for us! In Gym we played tennis.

On Friday, the patrols went to Wheelies in the morning. So at music there was barely anyone there! We are having Book Buddies later. I like book buddies.

By Katrina

SPIN Club goes to WE Day!

I think attending WE Day Manitoba is by far one of my favourite teaching days of the year! It is so inspiring to attend the event with 16 000 "change making" youth from across the province! The purpose is to kick start our year of campaigns in association with Free the Children. Mrs. Tresoor, Mrs. Dyck and I took 26 Grade 5 SPIN Club members to the MTS Centre yesterday. When we returned to school, we reflected on the day. Here are thoughts from some students:

At WE Day, the person that inspired me was Spencer West because he said lots of different stuff that all meant: No matter how old you are or what you can’t do, that YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. All the other stuff that made me feel good was all the people willing to make a change to the whole world.

The other thing that inspired me was when people waved their phones. It looked like I was in space. It also looked like they weren’t phones floating in mid air . . . they represented sparks of ideas.      – Tommy-Lee

Today was an inspiring Monday. WE Day changed my life. Out of everything, and I mean everything, my favourite presenter was Liz Trinnear. She has such a great message to the world in 2 words: imagination and engineering . . . Imagineering.    

 - Rebecca

Craig Kielburger and his brother Marc spoke into my heart by talking about how to change the world. JR Martinez inspired me by telling us his story. His friends worried about him, so when he was recovered he worried so much for them.      - Cory

I think my favourite part of WE Day was when Henry Winkler and Marlee Matlin came on stage! Marlee Matlin did sign-language and said “believe in yourself” because people told her she couldn’t succeed in life, but she did!     - Sierra

I was inspired by Elliot because he’s not much older than me and involved. The same thing that he did, I’d like to do.      - Donavan

 

A Peaceful TWAS!

This week, we read "What does PEACE feel like?" by V. Radunsky. We did some writing about what peace is to our 5 senses. I always think this is a fun activity, because peace can mean something different for each of us! We worked on an art job that incorporated the writing into it. I really love how our Peace Poppies turned out! Please check them out on Artsonia by clicking HERE.

"Movember" Attendance on Monday!

Thanks to Mackenzie A for sharing what else was up for our week . . .

Monday

On Monday we had Science and we are working on a project where we have to research an animal. I am researching a Wolf because I thought it would be easy because I see them in my back yard all the time. We also had gym and we played volleyball and I was on a team with Carter Grace. I was not very good but it was still fun!

Counting bags with our Grade 2
Book Buddies!

Tuesday

On Tuesday we had music and we sang clouds and it sounded wonderfully. We also had a morning meeting to talk about our new plan to get inside for recess. It made sense to me.

Wednesday

On Wednesday we had French and computer class. In French we just finished up some UN finished work. And in computer class we went on a web site called all the right type. I found it was easy.

Thursday

On Thursday we had art and we did a poppy art thing that looked really pretty and cool. We also had a math quiz that I found easy and I was the first one done. After I finished the teacher told me to take down some of the UNICEF posters. It was fun!

Friday

On Friday we had gym and we did our endurance run. I was partners with Gina and Katie S I got 17 laps. We also had TWAS that’s what I’m writing right now.                   

Kids helping kids!

Something I love about working with the older students is that we can learn lots about what we can do for others and the impact of our actions. I am always so happy with the support from the BHS community for all the wonderful things we do at our school.

For the last several years, my class has been in charge of Unicef. We have now wrapped up the campaign for this year. The grand total for donations is  . . . (drum roll, please) . . . $937.55. That is wonderful and will really help improve the lives of children struggling to survive!

The SPIN Club received a beautiful thank you card and letters from Mosaic Newcomer Resource Centre for the 200 pairs of socks we donated as part of the Socktober campaign. The letters were written by adults, who are new to Canada, and are just learning english for the first time. It's really heartwarming to read the letters!

As well, we just weighed all the food that was collected as part of the "We Scare Hunger" campaign with "Free the Children". A total of 281.5 pounds of food will be donated to Winnipeg Harvest, to help families in need.

Thanks so much for participating in these worthwhile fundraisers at a busy time of the year!

Ms. Wasney  :)